Disk-Drive Test Resouces
A Web Supplement to the August 1999 Disk-Drive Test Issue.
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 8/1/1999
Here are some resources to help you explore the various aspects of disk-drive test. If you would like to suggest additions to our list, please contact us at tmw@cahners.com O Books
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Characterization of Magnetic Recording Systems: A Practical Approach by Alexander Taratorin, Guzik Technical Enterprises, San Jose, CA, www.guzik.com/book.htm The Complete Handbook of Magnetic Recording by Finn Jorgensen, Tab Books ISBN 0-0703-3045-X, 1996. Data Storage magazine, Penwell Publishing, Nashua, NH, ISSN 1078-0920, www.datastorage.com. Disk/Trend Bookstore, www.disktrend.com/dtbooks.htm IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, www.ieee.org. Magnetic Disk Drive Technology: Heads, Media, Channel, Interfaces, and Integration, by Kanu G. Ashar, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, ISBN 0-7803-1083-7, 1997 Magnetic Information Storage Technology by Shan Wang, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, ISBN 0-1273-4570-1, 1999, www.mcgraw-hill.com. Magnetic Recording Technology, edited by C. Denis Mee and Eric D. Daniel, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, ISBN 0-0702-1276-6, 1995, www.mcgraw-hill.com Magneto-Resistive Heads: Fundamentals and Applications by John C. Mallinson and Isaak D. Mayergoyz, Academic Press, ISBN 0-124-6630-2, 1995. Journal of Information Storage and Processing Systems, Bharat Bhushan, Editor-in-Chief, Birkhäuser Boston, Cambridge, MA, 617-876-2333, ISSN 1099-8047, www.birkhauser.com/journals/jisps/. "Tribology and Mechanics of Magnetic Storage Devices", 2ed., B. Bhushan, IEEE/Springer, 1996 Measurement Solutions for Disk Drive Design, Tektronix, Beaverton, OR, document number 49W-1276-0, 1998. "Making PRML Measurements with Digital Oscilloscopes," Data Storage, June 1995, www.lecroy.com/applications/PRMLMeas/default.asp. The Era of Giant Magnetoresistive Heads by Jim Belleson and Ed Grochowski, www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/technolo/gmr/gmr.htm Developing a New Channel for Hard Disk Ddrives – The MDFE Project, www.eng.nus.edu.sg/EResnews/Aug97/aug97p4.html PRML Waveform Gneration and Analysis, LeCroy, Chestnut Ridge, NY, May 1995. Non-Linear Transition Shift, LeCroy, Chestnut Ridge, NY, www.lecroy.com/Applications/NLTS/default.asp DISKCON 99, September 20-24, San Jose, CA ESD Symposium, September 27-30, 1999, Orlando, FL. ESD Association, Rome NY, 315-339-6937, www.borg.com/~eosesd IDEMA ESD Symposium, IDEMA, Santa Clara, CA IDEMA also offers classes in disk-drive technology. IDEMA, Santa Clara, CA, 408-330-8100. IEEE Conferences on magnetics, www.ieee.org/conferences/tag/sct1mag.html List of disk-drive equipment and materials suppliers: www.disktrend.com/lnsupply.htm Disk-drive glossary, www.nordiko.com/ourglos/ourglos.htm Data Storage Institute, www.dsi.nus.edu.sg/ Introduction to PRML, www.guzik.com/Chapter9.htm Information about disk-storage I/O interfaces (SCSI, Fibre Channel, ATA, IEEE 1394, etc.) including technical specifications, www.bswd.com/cornucop.htm |
